Announcement

Future Directions in IC and Package Design Workshop

sponsored by:

organized by:

CPMT Technical Committee on Electrical Design, Modeling, and Simulation (TC-12)

October 27, 2001

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The goal of this new workshop is to provide a forum to address the future needs associated with the design of next generation ICs and packages. The Technical Program Committee will solicit invited presentations from experts in the university and in ustrial communities. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging in order to enhance this conference with presentations that give directions for future requirements and developme ts in the area of electrical analysis and design. These invited talks will address the following areas:

The workshop will foster active participation and discussions from all the speakers and attendees during the meeting.

 

 

Workshop Chairs:

Alina Deutsch                                                                                           Madhavan Swaminathan
IBM Watson Research Center                                                    Georgia Institute of Technology

Technical Program Committee:

Ronald Bracken - SRC                                                             Harold Hosack - SRC
Andreas Cangellaris - University of Illinois                                 Mahadevan Iyer - IME, Singapore
Moises Cases - IBM Austin                                                           George Katopis - IBM Poughkeepsie
Chi-Shih Chang - International SEMATECH, Inc.                                Toshio Sudo - Toshiba, Japan
Paul Franzon - North Carolina State University                                Gregory Taylor - Intel Oregon
Hartmut Grabinski - Univ. of Hanover, Germany                               Lewis Terman - IBM Watson Research

Workshop will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. The address is 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1299, phone: (617) 491-3600, fax: (617) 661-5956. The hotel is holding a block of rooms for participants at a special rate of $125 and he rest at $195 plus 4% city tax and 2.75% CCF tax. Reservations must be made by calling the hotel directly by October 7, 2001 to receive these rates.

Additional information may be obtained from the workshop chairs:

Alina Deutsch                                                                                Madhavan Swaminathan
[email protected]                                                                           [email protected]
phone: (914) 945-2858                                                                       phone: (404) 894-3340
fax: (914) 945-2141                                                                      fax:   (404) 894-9959

and the workshop administration:

Paul Baltes

[email protected]

phone: (520) 621-3054

fax: (520) 621-1443

The workshop is open to all attendees of the IEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging. Attendees interested in only the workshop will be charged a $50.0 fee which will cover lunch, refreshments, and digest of abstracts.